Rob Chapman: Outdoors360, Marine Art, and Telling Stories People Listen To
Rob Chapman is the creator of Outdoors360, an IGFA world record holder, marine artist, outdoor columnist, and tournament-winning angler. He joins Tom Rowland to talk about marketing and branding in the outdoor space and how to tell stories that people will actually stop and listen to.
Dr. Layne Norton: Fat Loss Forever and the Science of Keeping Weight Off
Dr. Layne Norton holds a PhD in nutritional sciences, is an IFBB pro bodybuilder and former world-record raw powerlifter, and founded BioLayne. In this episode he joins me in his garage gym in Saint Petersburg to walk through his book Fat Loss Forever: why the real problem is not weight loss but relapse, what the 5% who keep weight off do differently, why the best diet is the one you can sustain, how to set up a diet protein-first, why calories in versus calories out is like gravity, and the mindset reframe that changed how he runs his life.
Russell Kleppinger: 814 Tarpon in One Year and the Science of Tarpon Vision
Captain Russell Kleppinger caught 814 tarpon in a single year — a number that stopped me in my tracks — and he credits much of it to an obsession with how tarpon actually see. In this episode he walks me through the vision science he has learned from researchers: that tarpon may see dramatically better than humans, develop five types of cones to our three, detect ultraviolet light, and even tell individual people apart. He explains how that knowledge reshaped his fishing strategy and how he put it to work to land that staggering number of tarpon in one year.
Shannon Estenoz and Captain Josh Greer - The Future of the Everglades | Tom Rowland Podcast
Governor DeSantis made a bold move 48 hours into office — calling for the entire South Florida Water Management District board to resign and committing $2.5 billion to Everglades restoration. In this roundtable, Shannon Estenoz of the Everglades Foundation, guide and shop owner Captain Josh Greer, and Daniel Andrews of Captains for Clean Water sit down to talk about what that means for the future of the Everglades.
Matt & Kyle: New Year Resolutions and the Power of Your Inner Circle
Matt and Kyle join me for a conversation about New Year resolutions and the power of your inner circle, how to set goals you will actually keep, how discipline gets built one decision at a time, and why the people around you shape what you become.
Josh Cash | Green Card: An Irishman's Road to America | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 73
Josh Cash is an Irishman who moved to America, married an American, and went through the long process of getting his green card. A close friend and training partner of Tom's, Josh shares his firsthand account of legal immigration, the first person in his family to finish high school and college, and what it took to build a new life in the United States.
Hunter Jackson - Making His Dreams a Reality | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 68
My son Hayden Rowland is friends with Hunter Jackson and told me to look into what he was doing. I later met Hunter's dad and saw how supportive he was of his son's passion. In this episode, Hunter talks about chasing a career in the outdoors as a young person, the role of a family that believes in you, and what it takes to start making your dreams a reality.
Elliot Sudal - Viral Shark Video, The Raft Survival Show & Shark Conservation
Elliot Sudal, known as @acksharks, tells me how one viral surfcasting video on Nantucket sent him onto more than 80 TV shows, through eight days on a National Geographic survival raft, and into full-time shark research, tagging, and conservation across Florida.
Taylor Somerville - Breathing Into a New Life: The Wim Hof Method | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 64
Taylor Somerville is a breathwork and cold-exposure instructor specializing in the Wim Hof Method. I came across this method of breathing four years ago, and the more I looked into it the more I found that what Wim Hof does is backed by real scientific research. In this episode Taylor breaks down the techniques, the cold exposure, and how breathing deliberately can change your physiology and your life.
Brendan Smith and Turner Rowland - The Men in the Arena | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 62
I had the honor of recording this episode in Bozeman, Montana with my son Turner Rowland and his roommate Brendan Smith. Both moved to Bozeman after graduating high school to chase their love of hunting and fishing, and Turner recently finished his first season as an elk hunting guide. We talk about betting on a hard life in the mountains, guiding, and what it takes to step into the arena.
Gregor Gillespie - #bestfishermaninMMA: Wrestling, the UFC and Fishing | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 58
Gregor Gillespie is a UFC fighter and elite wrestler — two-time high school state champion, four-time Division I All-American, and NCAA national champion — who brings the same intensity to fishing that he brings to the octagon. Known as #bestfishermaninMMA, Gregor talks the parallels between wrestling discipline and fishing obsession, how he uses fishing to decompress from training, and why he called out Chad Mendes for a fish-off.
Graham Tayloe - A Brother From Another Mother | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 56
After featuring Graham Tayloe in two full How 2 Tuesday episodes, I finally had the joy of sitting down with him for a full-length conversation. Graham is one of my favorite people and one of my favorite people to hunt with, and his passion for what he does comes through in everything he says. This one is part interview, part hangout between two friends who hunt together every chance we get.
Capt. Scott Walker and Steve Rodger: Into the Blue
Captains Scott Walker and Steve Rodger are the hosts of Into the Blue Television, a fishing show I produce, and two of the most experienced charter captains the Florida Keys has ever produced. In this episode they join me to tell the stories behind their fishing careers — from washing boats as kids to building charter businesses in the Keys, the offshore world of tuna, marlin, and dolphin, how hospitality changed the guiding business, and what it really takes to run a successful charter operation and a TV show on the water.
Capt. Benny Blanco: On the Front Lines for the Everglades
Capt. Benny Blanco is a Miami-based fishing guide who works around 300 days a year and stands on the front lines of the fight for the Everglades. He joins me to share his perspective on the South Florida water crisis, why his fishery is starved of freshwater flow, and what it takes to protect a place you love.
Chad Conely - Breaking the Cycle: Marine, Entrepreneur and Fly Fisherman | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 35
Chad Conely is an entrepreneur and business owner who overcame poverty to join the Marines, earn a college degree, and design the life he wanted. Through a positive attitude, relentless work ethic, and dropping the victim mindset, he broke a family cycle of poverty, addiction, and abuse — and still budgets time to fly fish the North Georgia mountains.
Jessica 'Dixie' Mills - Triple Crowner: AT, PCT, CDT Thru-Hiking | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 32
Jessica 'Dixie' Mills is a thru-hiker who completed the Triple Crown — the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail. In Episode 32 she walks me through what it takes to complete all three: roughly 8,000 miles, a Sierra Nevada river crossing that nearly killed her, a mountain lion in New Mexico, and how she funds the trail life with Homemade Wanderlust.
CA Richardson — Flats Class, Teaching, Family and Passion | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 31
CA Richardson is a professional angler who has hosted the television show Flats Class for over a decade. A masterful teacher, CA has expanded his influence on South Florida anglers by partnering with Salt Strong to offer online courses. Tom and CA first met in the early days of professional redfish tournaments, and they reconnect to talk teaching, family, and the passion behind a long fishing career.
Robert Arrington — Building Deer Meat For Dinner on YouTube | Tom Rowland Podcast
Robert Arrington is the creator of Deer Meat For Dinner, a hugely popular YouTube channel covering hunting, fishing, and outdoor cooking from his home in Florida. After my audience overwhelmingly asked me to track him down, we sat down to talk about building a giant outdoor channel from scratch, staying authentic while you grow, the business of YouTube most creators never discuss, and why conservation matters.
April Vokey: Living By a Strict Moral Code in Fly Fishing and Life
April Vokey, the British Columbia fly fishing guide and host of the Anchored podcast, joins Tom Rowland to talk about living her life by a strict moral code. April shares how a girl drawn to water became a steelhead guide, why she walked away from sturgeon and salmon guiding, how she built her own company without poaching clients, and what it costs to be outspoken in the fishing industry. Recorded at ICAST, this is a candid conversation about integrity, guiding, and choosing the harder, truer path.
Joe Simonds — Creating Salt Strong to Fish for Happiness
Joe Simonds left financial services at 35 to build Salt Strong with his brother Luke. This conversation covers the hotel room decision, the pivot away from apparel, and why teaching fishing is the memory business.
Jason Stemple: How to Take Better Fishing Photos with Any Camera
Jason Stemple is a professional photographer who shoots Saltwater Experience, Into The Blue, and Sweetwater, plus work for Buff, Yeti, and Hawks Cay. He joins Tom Rowland to share how anyone can take better fishing photos with any camera, from an iPhone or GoPro to professional gear, by capturing the feeling of the moment.
Davis Bennett — Filmmaking For a New Generation | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 20
Davis Bennett is 21, has been fishing for two and a half years, and now shoots for one of the biggest fishing channels on YouTube. He talks about building a filmmaking career from scratch, working 60-hour weeks, the discipline he learned managing 60 people at UPS, and what he wants to shoot next.
Brad McLeod - Former Navy SEAL on Improving 1% Daily, Gratitude and the Never Quit Mindset | Tom Rowland Podcast Ep. 19
Brad McLeod is a former Navy SEAL and the founder of SealGrinderPT. His path to becoming a SEAL included attending BUD/S, completing Hell Week, and then failing a math test that rolled him back into the fleet. He started over from Day 1, made it through, and built a Never Quit philosophy he now teaches to athletes of every level.
BlacktipH (Joshua Jorgensen): How a Shark-Fishing YouTuber Built a Sensation
Joshua Jorgensen, known online as BlacktipH, is one of the biggest fishing creators on YouTube. He started by filming himself catching sharks from the beach and grew BlacktipH into a channel with hundreds of thousands of subscribers and videos with tens of millions of views. In this episode he sits down with me in his office to talk about where he came from — a near-career in theoretical physics and lab work on government and NASA projects — how he became a YouTube sensation, his obsession with production quality, why he makes videos for the person he used to be, and how he balances a demanding career with being a present husband and father.